Chapter 145 Aren’t you not coming back?
Xiao Ning didn't want to go back to the princess's mansion at first. She really didn't know how to face the princess. But after thinking about it, she realized that she had to face it sooner or later. She couldn't just go her whole life without seeing the princess...
Besides... the princess always suffers for herself. She just promised last time that she would make him something delicious when she comes back from her rest period. If she breaks her promise, he will definitely be sad.
She didn't want the princess to be too sad.
"Let's go, His Highness is in the study."
Furong led Xiao Ning to the study.
Xiao Ning held Furong back: "Well, how about... I go cook first? Oh, what does the princess like to eat?"
Furong turned around, her eyes swept over Xiao Ning's face, and she smiled and said, "I haven't noticed what Your Highness likes to eat. Why don't you ask the princess yourself?"
Xiao Ning: “…”
Xiao Ning finally arrived at the study. She raised her hand, hesitated in the air for a moment, and finally knocked on the door.
“Knock, knock, knock…”
There was no movement inside.
“Knock, knock, knock…”
Shang Xi felt very upset because Xiao Ning broke his promise. His mind was full of thoughts about this unfaithful man who said he would not break his promise but still did. The knock on the door startled him back to his senses, and he found that he had written someone's name on the paper.
He was so angry that he crumpled the paper into a ball and threw it on the ground.
He casually threw the pen in his hand onto the table and said irritably, "Liar!"
But the knocking sound continued there.
Shang Xi glared at the door and cursed, "Get out!"
After this angry curse, the knocking stopped. Shang Xi was about to look away when the door was pushed open.
At the door was the person he had been missing for a long time.
The irritation and anger on his face remained there as he stared at Xiao Ning at the door from a distance.
Xiao Ning clenched his hands at his side and gave Shang Xi a relaxed smile: "Your Highness, what's wrong with you? Why are you so angry? Who offended you?"
Shang Xi: “…”
The irritation and anger on his face gradually dissipated. He lowered his eyes and said in a somewhat aggrieved tone, "Aren't you not coming back?"
"When did I say I wouldn't come back? Where would I go if I didn't come back on my day off?"
Xiao Ning said as she came to the desk, lowered her eyes slightly, looked at Shang Xi who was sitting at the desk and looking up at her, and said with a smile: "Haven't you had dinner yet?"
Shang Xi nodded.
Xiao Ning: "What do you want to eat? I'll make it for you."
Shang Xi said, "I'm not picky about food. I'll eat whatever you cook."
Xiao Ning placed his hands on the desk and asked with a smile, "Then Your Highness, will you help me this time?"
Shang Xi nodded: "Yes."
"Then let's go."
Xiao Ning turned around and stepped on something. She moved her feet and saw it was a ball of paper, so she bent down to pick it up.
At this time, Shang Xi stood up and left the desk. Seeing Xiao Ning bending down to pick up something, his face changed and he ran over hurriedly, reaching out to grab the thing in her hand. Xiao Ning subconsciously dodged, and Shang Xi's waist hit the corner of the desk. The pain made him sweat on his forehead, but he didn't care.
“Give it back to me!”
He shouted, his eyes red and his expression nervous and panicked.
Xiao Ning: “…”
She reached out to support him, but he snatched the paper ball from her hand.
He lit the paper ball and threw it into the brazier.
Watching the flames devour the paper ball, he breathed a sigh of relief, turned to look at Xiao Ning, and forced a smile: "This, this is a confidential letter, you can't show it to anyone..."
He paused and explained again, "I mean, this letter can't be shown to others easily... It's not that I don't trust you..."
Xiao Ning didn't care about what he meant by that. He just stretched out his hand and pointed at his waist. "Does it hurt? Why don't you go back and let Furong help you with the injury?"
Shang Xi raised his hand and pressed the part of his waist where he was hit. "It's okay, and it doesn't hurt much."
He just wanted to look at her a few more times.
After all, this is the only chance to be with her once a month.
Xiao Ning frowned and said, "Go back to your room and check on your injuries first. It won't take long. I'll wait for you outside and we'll go to the kitchen together. Okay?"
Shang Xi: “…”
His eyelids trembled, and finally he pursed his lips and said "Oh".
The two left the study together.
Furong was waiting outside. Seeing that one of them was frowning and the other was pursing her lips, both of them looked unhappy, she shrank back, looking at her nose and her heart.
However, Xiao Ning locked onto her gaze, "Aunt Furong..."
Furong: “…”
She stepped forward with a smile, bowed, and said, "What do you want, my Lord?"
Xiao Ning said, "The princess is slightly injured. Take her back to the house to see if it's serious and whether it requires a visit from the imperial physician."
Upon hearing this, Furong immediately looked at Shang Xi nervously, "Your Highness, where are you injured?"
Shang Xi: "...It's nothing, it's just the Prince Consort who's making a big deal out of nothing."
In the end, Shang Xi was supported by Furong and went back to the room to see his wounds, while Xiao Ning stayed in the yard and looked in the direction of the room.
His eyes were a little dazed.
In fact, she saw the contents of the paper ball just now.
The ink could be seen through the back of the paper, and it was clearly her name.
That piece of paper was filled with...all the love he couldn't express.
Shang Xi came out of the room not long after entering. He trotted over to Xiao Ning and smiled at her, "I told you it's okay. Let's go and make dinner."
Xiao Ning also smiled and glanced at Furong. Seeing her calm expression, he knew that the injury should not be serious.
"Let's go."
The two men went to the small kitchen and drove the servants out again.
Xiao Ning asked Shang Xi: "What would your highness like to eat?"
Shang Xi looked at her and smiled, "It's all fine. Just do what you like. I'm not picky."
Xiao Ning thought about it, what does she like to eat...
In the eight years since the end of the world, she has eaten everything. She no longer has any likes or dislikes. She loves anything that can fill her stomach.
As for those beautiful yet distant memories before the apocalypse, she had almost forgotten them...
"How about making some dumpling soup and some vegetable boxes?"
This was something her mother often made for her when she was in school before the apocalypse. She always complained that it tasted bad, but later she never had the chance to eat it again.
Shang Xi had never heard of the names of these two kinds of food, so he just nodded and said, "Okay."
So Xiao Ning handed Shang Xi a handful of green leaves and said, "Go wash them."
Shang Xi took it obediently and went to wash it clean.
Xiao Ning took out a wooden basin, kneaded the dough and let it rest, then rolled it into lumps.
Worried that Shang Xi wouldn't be used to the food or that it wasn't enough, Xiao Ning prepared two more dishes, cut a piece of meat, and sliced it on the plate.
Because I made the food boxes, it was already late by the time the meal was ready in the evening.
But the two of them didn't care about this. After putting the food on the table, they started eating.
In the end, she still couldn’t make the food taste like her mother’s, but Xiao Ning was not a person who would spoil the fun, and the food was really valuable, so she still ate it with relish.
Shang Xi ate vegetable boxes and drank dumpling soup for the first time, and felt that this was the only food made by Xiao Ning that was not delicious.
But seeing Xiao Ning was eating the vegetable box, he thought strangely in his heart that it was rare that Xiao Ning liked to eat such food.
"You seem to like this very much."
Shang Xi asked.
Xiao Ning was stunned when he heard this, then smiled and said, "My...mom used to make this for me."
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